Just a blink

 

Around the corner, The Blue House

An old building restored and sold as flats.

 

Taxco. A short trip

Taxco is a beautiful city in Mexico built on a hill in Guerrero. It is rich with old and new silver mines, it has narrow streets and hundreds of silver shops. It is off the toll way but it is worth the drive, it is between Acapulco and Mexico City.
The building of most importance is the temple of Santa Prisca found in the heart of the city, on the west side of the main square called Borda. The construction took place between 1751 and 1758, under the supervision of don Diego Duran. The work, both in it's magnificent façade as in it's beautiful interiors, is considered as one of the best and most extraordinary samples of the Mexican churrigueresque style. Inside it is possible to admire a rich ornamentation based on altarworks and paintings, these ones coming from the brush of Miguel Cabrera.

 

Cherubs of the Temple of Santa Prisca

 

 

Cactus


Back to the city.

 

Arrival to the city.

 

Ripley's Museum

 

Just an old picture. For C & M

 

H. Galeana. Insurgente

It's one of the statues placed at Paseo de la Reforma, a main street of the city.
This is for one of the leaders of Mexico's struggle for Independence from Spain.

Shock

 

Suburbia

A view of the city taken from the hills.

 

Metropolis. The Earth Goddess

 

Metropolis [Carving Tree]

 

Trio

Personality

 

Tlatelolco. 2 de Octubre de 1968.

 

Tlatelolco

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tlatelolco is an area in Mexico City, centered on the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, a square surrounded on three sides by an excavated Aztec pyramid, the 17th century church Templo de Santiago, and the modern office complex of the Mexican foreign ministry.

Originally it was an independent Aztec city, but it was absorbed by Tenochtitlan. During the Aztec rule, it was the market district of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán, probably one of the largest in the Americas.

According to Conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo, it was larger than the city of Sevilla and larger than any market any of the Spaniards had seen, even those of Venice and Constantinople, with about 20,000 to 40,000 people trading.

Tlatelolco massacre

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre

The Tlatelolco Massacre, also known as The Night of Tlatelolco (from a book title by the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska), took place on the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City, ten days before the 1968 Summer Olympics celebrations in Mexico City. The death toll remains controversial: some estimates place the number of deaths in the thousands, but most sources report 200-300 deaths. Government sources say "4 Dead, 20 Wounded". There exact number of people who were arrested is also controversial.

Also called The Mexican Tiananmen

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989

Monument to Emiliano Zapata

One of the revolutionary heroes of Mexico.
Placed in Toluca, near Mexico City.

 

Taxi Post

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Taxi & the sunday market

In an area of the city called La Roma

 

Lightning